Evolution of a wiki

This is a visualization of the evolution of wiki.tudelft.nl from the very beginning, 5 years ago. Each node is a page, links are connections between pages. Graph is laid out using a force-directed algorithm, where the edges (links between pages) pull the nodes (pages) together, and the nodes (pages) repel each other. This means that the more tightly connected nodes will be closer together than weakly connected ones, which are pushed to the outside. The entire thing is created using Prefuse (http://prefuse.org/), wiki is using the TWiki engine (http://twiki.org). The soundtrack is from DJ Cary's Eastern Grooves compilation from Magnatune.com. More info about this can be found at http://wiki.tudelft.nl/bin/view/Main/WikiGrowthOverTime

Licensed under Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• complexity
• wiki
• network
• evolution
• visualization
• web2.0
• science
• graphics

[CoolComplexity]

Sure they are, they are made by us :)

[javiersorribes]

Very interesting... it'd be great to do it with Wikipedia.

[MJGrindboy]

Bares a striking resemblance to Synapses!

[ooheythere]

Fabulous concept! Music works, too.

[AppA]

@MJGrindboy, sure they do, they are made using our thoughts :)

[wacharaboy]

cool... wikis are living creatures

[jnrolf]

Very cool!

[sebasguticom]

i like

[janetyc]

cool